Aizawl, Jun 1 : Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla
today lamented the fact that use of tobacco in different forms
was highly prevalent in the Mizo society which has resulted in
high incidence of cancer in the state.
Addressing a function on the occasion...
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Tobacco use in Mizoram leading high incidence of cancer: CM
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Mizoram govt submits report of Bru repatriation to Centre
Aizawl, May 31 : The Mizoram government has submitted a report of
the fourth phase of Bru repatriation to the Union Home Ministry. State
home minister R Lalzirliana said the reactions from the union ministry
was being awaited. During the fourth...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Mizoram seeks Australian help to study earthquake
Aizawl, May 31 : Mizoram, which falls under earthquake prone zone, has sought the help of Australian government to set up a state-of-the-art earthquake institution in the state.Mizoram chief secretary Vanhela Pachuau said this to the second secretary...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Portfolio reshuffle of ministers in Mizoram
Aizawl: A minor reshuffle of the portfolios of the Council of Ministers was effected in Mizoram on Tuesday.An official statement said Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla was given additional charge of Information and Public Relations and District Council Affairs...
Monday, May 28, 2012
N-E, a border of prosperity
The Northeast has been the focus of India’s Myanmar policy, even more so than China. With the security situation in the Northeast stabilizing, PM’s visit to Myanmar was a chance to boost the other side of security: economics.The following concessions...
Aizawl now an e-district; Mizoram best among 14 states
Aizawl, May 27 : Now one would avoid the trouble to
going to the deputy commissioner’s office amidst traffic jam, wasting a
lot of time and money, just to get an income certificate or any other
important document.
The e-district project for Aizawl,...
Sunday, May 27, 2012
MNF rejects Cong claim on NLUP fund source
AIZAWL, May 28 – The Mizo National Front (MNF) today accused the Congress Government in Mizoram of cheating the people by claiming that its flagship programme New Land Use Policy (NLUP) fund is from ‘PM’s Special Package’.The MNF said on the contrary,...
49 displaced Mizo families rehabilitated
Aizawl, May 28 : Forty-nine displaced Mizo
families, driven out from Sakhan range in Tripura in 1998,
have been rehabilitated by the Mizoram government in Mamit
district on Tripura border, a top district official said
today.
Èach displaced family was...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Mizo mom gives birth to 5
Aizawl, May 24 : For the first time in the history of Mizoram, a woman from Hnahlan village gave this tiny picturesque state its first quintuplets at a hospital in Aizawl. According to sources, Rebecca Lalrinkimi (28) of Hnahlan in Champhai district...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
LPG cylinders to be issued 15 days after last cylinder issued
Aizawl, May 23 : Mizoram government today decided that even those who were issued cooking gas cylinder from the emergency quota from the government should produce LPG consumer card and would be issued only after 15 days from the last time the consumer...
Mizoram sees rise in child abuse, juvenile crime
Aizawl, May 23 : Mizoram has witnessed a disturbing rise in child abuse and juvenile crime, with 89 cases of child abuse and 35 cases of children in conflict with the law registered during January to March this year.The child welfare department, working...
Monday, May 21, 2012
Mizo player injured in on-field violence in Santosh Trophy
Bhubaneswar, May 22 : On-field violence left a
player injured in a quarter-final match of the Santosh Trophy
National Football Championship between Tamil Nadu and Mizoram
at the Kalinga stadium here today.
In the 53rd minute of the match in which...
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Mizoram used barely 10 per cent of DoNER funds
New Delhi: Slow implementation of projects and not fund crunch seems to be the reason for lack of infrastructure development in the northeastern state of Mizoram, statistics given by the Centre indicate.Minister for Development of the North Eastern Region...
Porous border leading to increasing narco-terrorism:Mizoram CM
Narco-terrorism have increased in Mizoram due to the porous 404-km-long international border it shares with Myanmar, Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla said today.To tackle the menace, he said in a statement, security forces deployed in the border area should...
Security heightened in Mizoram
Security forces in Mizoram have stepped up vigil after an
intelligence report indicated possible violence by the separatist outfit
Hmar People's Convention-Democrats (HPC-D) in the northeastern state,
police said here yesterday.
DIG of Police (northern...
Drug smuggling rising along India-Myanmar border
Aizawl, May 20 — Smuggling of narcotics and other drugs has been
increasing along the unfenced India-Myanmar border, Mizoram Chief
Minister lal Thanhawla said here Saturday.
"To tackle the menace
of drug trafficking, smuggling of other goods...
Thursday, May 17, 2012
MNF chief Zoramthanga blames EVMs for defeat of regional parties
Guwahati : Mizo National Front (MNF) president and former Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga Thursday blamed the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) for defeat of regional parties like his and Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and charged the Congress with...
Mizoram used barely 10 per cent of funds allocated by DoNER
New Delhi, May 17 : Slow implementation of projects
and not fund crunch seems to be the reason for lack of
infrastructure development in the northeastern state of
Mizoram, statistics given by the Centre indicate.
Minister for Development of the North...
AGP 2 LAST
Speaking on the occasion as a special guest former Speaking on the occasion as a special guest former
Mizoram chief minister and head of the ZMN party Zoramthanga
said it was the need of the hour that the regional forces
unite.
"It was a golden occasion...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Mizoram top in RMSA fund utilisation
Mizoram has topped not only all other Northeastern states, but most
of the other Indian states in utilisation of fund sanctioned under the
RMSA mission. According to an official statement, Mizoram was next
only to Haryana in terms of utilisation...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
No Bru refugee returns on last day of repatriation
Aizawl: Not a single Bru refugee returned from Tripura to Mizoram on the last day of the fourth phase of repatriation on Tuesday, even as the state government made elaborate arrangements to receive 147 Bru families from Kaskau relief camp in North Tripura.Mamit...
Mizoram drubs Rajasthan 12-0
Mizoram proved its gaining stature in Indian football
with a 12-0 drubbing of Rajasthan in the cluster-VI preliminary league
match of the National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy at
Cuttack on Monday.
P. Lalrinpuia and Zico Zoramsanga...
Bru repatriation runs into roadblock
The fourth round of repatriation of Bru refugees from Tripura
concluded today with just seven families of the targetted 669 families
returning to their homes in the western belt of Mizoram. The
Mizoram government planned to take back 669 families,...
Monday, May 14, 2012
Students arrested for wrecking churches
AIZAWL: Three youngsters, all inmates of a school hostel in Kolasib district along the Mizoram-Assam border, were arrested recently for vandalizing various houses of worship in the area. The arrested persons include Christopher Lalremruata (18) a resident...
Mizoram CM wants to end Boundary dispute with Assam
Aizawl, May 15 : A meeting of Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla and leaders of All NGOs Joint Committee of Mizoram today deliberated on the issue of boundary disputes with the neighbouring states, especially Assam and decided that further and wider...
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Mizoram alert on foot-and-mouth disease
Aizawl, May 14 : Alert over foot-and-mouth disease, the Mizoram government has put a halt on the import of high-breed cattle from Ludhiana.The state government has placed an order for 1,896 high milk producing cows from Ludhiana (Punjab) and Karnal (Haryana)...
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Mizo Christian sect refuses education for children
At least 26 children between 6-14 now keep away from school.Aizawl: Twelve families of a Christian sect in a Mizoram district have refused to enroll with the government and avail its various welfare schemes.The families do not want to be associated with...
Teenagers detained for defiling religious books in Mizoram
Aizawl : Three teenagers have been detained in Mizoram for defiling religious books, police here said Friday.
"The teenagers were handed over to police by their parents at Kolasib
in northern Mizoram earlier this week after they confessed their
crime,"...
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Kids behind Mizoram church defilement
Three underage boys were found to be behind a series of church
defilement in Kolasib in northern Mizoram during the last few months.
The accused were handed over to Kolasib police by their parents
today, Kolasib police said.
Their suspicious...
Chandigarh Football Academy wins Manchester United Premier Cup
SIRSAI (Goa): The under-15 boys from Chandigarh Football Academy today defeated PIFA Colaba 2-0 to lift the Nike Manchester United Premier Cup India title.The winner will now travel to Indonesia to compete at the Manchester United Regional Final 2012...
Mizoram govt to go ahead with repatriation of Bru refugees
Aizawl, May 11 : Mizoram government would go ahead with the fourth phase of repatriation of Bru refugees from the relief camps in North Tripura even as only seven families have returned till date, state home minister R Lalzirliana said here today. Lalzirliana...
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Mizoram CM supports NCTC
Aizawl : Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla Wednesday supported the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) saying it won't hit the country's federal structure."The NCTC is a positive move of the central government. The national security is an issue...
Monday, May 7, 2012
Presbyterian Church of India decide not to join WCC
Taking the stand of its member bodies, the
Presbyterian Church of India (PCI) last week reached a consensus to not
join the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC).
During the 40th Biennial Assembly held at Champhai Vengsang Presbyterian
Church,...
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Buddha Purnima observed in Mizoram
Along with their brethren in the rest of the world, the Buddha followers in Mizoram, who are mainly Chakma community, observed the Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the religion, here today. Under the aegis of Aizawl Chakma Welfare Association...
Northeast's fourth software technology park in Mizoram
Aizawl, May 7 : The central government, in association with the Mizoram government, will set up a software technology park in Mizoram to boost IT in northeast India and software exports, a minister said here Sunday."Officials of the union ministry of...
Mizoram CM favours NCTC
Aizawl, May 7 : Chief Minister of Mizoram Lal Thanhawla favours the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) .In the meeting held yesterday chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the chief minister of Mizoram while addressing the meeting congratulated...
37 Reang refugees repatriated
Agartala, May 6 : Only 37 Reang/Bru refugees of six families today returned to their ancestral land at Mizoram’s Mammit district from North Tripura district, official sources said. “The refugees were reluctant to return, but after much persuasion by...
From the north-east to the heart of India
From the time I was in my teens, I have always had a special affection for the north-east of India. In my case, my motives were entirely personal. I went out for several years with a girl from one of the north-eastern states.In those days, it was rare...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
NLFT releases abducted workers
Guwahati, May 3 : Six abducted workers of an Assam-based construction company were released by the outlawed group National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) on Wednesday.They were abducted at gun point by the militant group a month before, Mizoram police...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
56 Assam villages want to be under Mizoram
Aizawl : Alleging step-motherly treatment from the Assam state government, as many as 56 villages under Karimganj district in Assam have prayed for inclusion under Mizoram for the grass is literally greener on the other side.In a letter to the deputy...
Pachuau likely contender for DG&IGP post
New Delhi, May 2 : Mizoram DGP Lalrokhuma Pachuau is returning to Karnataka (his home cadre) in the hope of becoming the DG&IGP of the State.“Today, the Mizoram government relieved me from service and I am going back to Karnataka,” he told Deccan...
High Security Registration Plate introduced in Mizoram
Aizawl: In compliance with the Supreme Court order, the Mizoram transport department had introduced High Security Registration Plate (HSRP). As part of the formal introduction the HSRP, the official car of chief minister Lal Thanhawla was first fixed...
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